Unit ENGLISH LITERATURE I
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- GP004932
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Letterature straniere
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/10
- Type of study-unit
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
ENGLISH LITERATURE I - Cognomi A-L
| Code | GP004932 |
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| CFU | 9 |
| Teacher | Rosanna Camerlingo |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Letterature straniere |
| Academic discipline | L-LIN/10 |
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| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | The course intends to offer a survey of English Literature in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. It will focus on the most important authors of the period: William Shakespeare and John Milton. We will read: W. Shakespeare’s Othello and Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Books I, V and IX of Milton’s Paradise Lost,within the historical and linguistic circumstances that permitted the rise of English Literature. |
| Reference texts | W. Shakespeare, King Lear (Garzanti testo a fronte) John Milton, Paradise Lost R. Camerlingo, Il Rinascimento e Shakespeare, in La Letteratura Inglese vol. 1, A cura di P. Bertinetti, Einaudi. Further critical essays will be given during the course and will be published on unistudium. |
| Educational objectives | This teaching aims to provide a basic knowledge of sixteenth and seventeenth century English Liberature. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to do the following: 1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the primary texts and of their historical framework. 2. Identify aesthetic principles of literature, arts and humanities. 3. Select and use the vocabulary of the humanities at an appropriate intellectual level. 4. Demonstrate the skill of reading, translating and commenting on the texts. |
| Prerequisites | In order to be able to know how to tackle the course, students must have the basic notions of the history of the Western Humanistic Tradition; are expected to be able to read primary texts in their original language; must be able to read critically and formulate relevant conclusions (critical thinking);must have acquired proficiency in communication (writing, reading, listening skills).These are competences that the student should have already acquired in his/her school and university curriculum. These preconditions are valid both for attending and not attending students. |
| Teaching methods | lessons, films, power point |
| Learning verification modality | The exam is written only for the first call of June. It will consist in 4 questions concerning the issues dealt with during the course, and in a comment on a passage taken from the primary texts read in class. In the following calls the exam consists in a reading and translation of passages taken from the primary texts, and in a discussion about the issues there contained. The course program is valid only for one academic year. |
| Extended program | This teaching aims to provide a basic knowledge of sixteenth and seventeenth century English Liberature. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to do the following: 1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the primary texts and of their historical framework. 2. Identify aesthetic principles of literature, arts and humanities. 3. Select and use the vocabulary of the humanities at an appropriate intellectual level. 4. Demonstrate the skill of reading, translating and commenting on the texts. |
ENGLISH LITERATURE I - Cognomi M-Z
| Code | GP004932 |
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| CFU | 9 |
| Teacher | Camilla Caporicci |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Letterature straniere |
| Academic discipline | L-LIN/10 |
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